Alert archive / Massachusetts / 2023
Weather alerts in Massachusetts, February 2023
57 weather alerts in February 2023, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in February 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 57
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 28
- Busiest day
- February 23, 20239 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 3:11 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 5 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 1, 3:17 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 24 hr | |
| Feb 1, 3:09 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 70 hr |
| Feb 1, 3:18 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 2, 3:38 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 57 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:38 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOX | Dukes, Nantucket | 57 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:40 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 66 hr | |
| Feb 2, 3:40 AM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | BOX | 60 hr | |
| Feb 3, 2:11 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Franklin, Hampshire | 49 min |
| Feb 3, 4:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Middlesex, Worcester | 37 min |
| Feb 3, 7:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BOX | Barnstable | 3 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:31 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 4 days | |
| Feb 4, 3:31 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | BOX | 7 hr | |
| Feb 4, 10:05 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 17 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:00 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 5, 3:19 PM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 12 hr | |
| Feb 6, 3:15 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Feb 6, 9:24 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 52 hr | |
| Feb 7, 3:02 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:58 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 18 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:53 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 60 hr | |
| Feb 9, 3:08 PM EST | Wind Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 23 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:11 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 25 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:12 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Feb 12, 4:03 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 64 hr | |
| Feb 15, 3:01 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 35 hr | |
| Feb 15, 3:01 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 25 hr | |
| Feb 16, 3:56 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 48 hr | |
| Feb 16, 2:14 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 38 hr | |
| Feb 16, 2:14 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 53 hr | |
| Feb 18, 7:29 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 57 hr | |
| Feb 20, 3:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 41 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:09 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 33 hr | |
| Feb 21, 4:10 AM EST | Coastal Flood Statement | BOX | Barnstable, Essex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 11 hr |
| Feb 21, 4:40 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 42 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:32 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 47 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:14 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk | 36 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:02 AM EST | Wind Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 39 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:02 AM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 11 hr | |
| Feb 23, 4:02 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 39 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:20 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 9 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:28 PM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 28 hr | |
| Feb 23, 3:28 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 44 hr | |
| Feb 23, 3:28 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | BOX | 40 hr | |
| Feb 23, 6:54 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:46 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 2 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:27 PM EST | Gale Watch | BOX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 25, 3:27 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 26, 3:37 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | ALY | Berkshire | 24 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:45 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 24 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:59 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOX | Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden and 7 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:09 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | ALY | Berkshire | 48 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:17 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BOX | Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Worcester | 30 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:25 AM EST | Gale Warning | BOX | 36 hr | |
| Feb 27, 3:25 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BOX | 4 days | |
| Feb 27, 3:32 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 36 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 10 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Warning | 2 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Statement | 1 |
| Marine | |
| Gale Warning | 8 |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | 1 |
| Gale Watch | 6 |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Watch | 1 |
| Heavy Freezing Spray Advisory | 2 |
| Small Craft Advisory | 11 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.